Jeremy Day-O’Connell

Associate Professor

Office: Zankel Music Center 212
Phone: (518) 580-5339
Email:  jdayocon@skidmore.edu

DEGREES:

• Ph.D., Musicology, Cornell University (2002)
• M.A., Musicology, Cornell University (1997)
• B.A., Mathematics and Music, Swarthmore College (1993)

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:

• Music theory and analysis
• 19th-century music
• Music and language

PUBLICATIONS

 

BOOK

• Pentatonicism From the Eighteenth Century to Debussy. University of Rochester Press, 2007.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• “Joint Speech: A Musical Perspective (or, In Praise of Singing)” in Music Perception 37.4 (2020): 363-65.

• “Putting the Theory Back in ‘Music Theory’” in Engaging Students 7 (2019)
  
  
• “Speech, Song, and the Minor Third: an Acoustic Study of the Stylized Interjection” in Music Perception 30.5 (2013): 441-62.

• “Debussy, Pentatonicism, and the Tonal Tradition” in Music Theory Spectrum 31.2 (2009): 225-61.

• “The Rise of 6 in the Nineteenth Century” in Music Theory Spectrum 24 1 (2002): 35-67.

OTHER WRITINGS

• Review of Patel, Music, Language, and the Brain in Journal of Music Theory 54.2 (Fall 2010): 441-62.
• Contributions to two reference works: The New Grove Dictionary of Musicand Musicians, Second Edition, 2001, and to The Reader's Guide to Music, 1999.

PRESENTATIONS

• Conference presentations at annual meetings of the Society for Music Theory, the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, and the Society for Ethnomusicology.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Fulbright Distinguished Scholarship, 2009-2010.
• Philip Green Wright-Lombard College Award for Distinguished Teaching, Knox College, 2009.
• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Music Theory. University of Chicago, 2004-2005.
• Lilly Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities and Arts. Valparaiso University, Indiana, 2002-2004.
• Donald J. Grout Memorial Prize. Music Department, Cornell University, 2002.
• Guildford Dissertation Prize. English Department, Cornell University, 2002.